Brother HL-5040 Laser Printer
Brother HL-5040 Laser Printer Review
I’ve had this printer for about 10 months & use it all the time. I’m an independent notary signing agent & print mortgage documents with it several times per week. I’ve had an occasional paper jam, but easily cleared. As for crinkling of envelopes on manual feed, just set the guides a little farther out, so the envelope has room to flow through & no crinkles…I learned that from my office’s HP 4 — same issue there. Easy to correct. Haven’t had to replace a drum yet, though I’ve gone through at least 3 toner cartridges already. Memory is adequate even for 100-pg pdf files.
All in all, I like this printer & I’d buy it again. I compared to HP and Minolta & felt this was the better deal for the price & features. I did purchase the optional lower paper tray, so I don’t have to constantly switch everything between letter & legal when printing.
Setting up the printer was cake! Easiest component to set up yet!
- 2,400 x 600 dpi resolution with HQ1200 technology
- Up to 17 pages per minute print speed
- 8 MB memory, upgradeable to 136 MB; 250-sheet universal paper cassette
- Supports optional 10BaseT external Ethernet print server
- USB 2.0 and parallel interfaces; PC and Mac compatible
Winner of PC World’s World Class Award and PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award, the affordable HL-5040 laser printer is the ideal printer for your office at work or your office at home. It features a fast print speed at up to 17 ppm, PCL 6 emulation, high-quality output, and excellent performance. It also features 8 MB standard memory, graphics-quality HQ1200 print resolution (up to 2,400 x 600 dpi), a convenient, 250-sheet paper tray, and PC and Mac compatibility. To grow with your needs, the printer offers the option of adding memory (136 MB via optional 100-pin DIMM), 10/100 BaseT Ethernet print server network connectivity, and a second, lower paper tray.
The HL-5040 has a single-sheet manual by-pass tray for card stock, letterhead, and envelopes. It comes with drivers for Windows 95/98/NT4.0/Me/2000/XP as well as for Macintosh USB computers (running OS 8.6 to 9.2, OS X, 10.1, and 10.2.1). The printer is backed by a one-year limited Express Exchange warranty.
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